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2013PCPlayStationXbox60 % positive9.99 €

You play Conrad Hart, hunting for clues about his lost memories on an alien-infested Earth. Paul Cuisset's remake blends cinematic platforming with clever puzzles, sneaky sequences and the tense feeling of narrowly escaping death.

  • Jumping and platforming
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Puzzles and brain teasers
  • Lavish presentation
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Another World: 20th Anniversary Edition

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An iconic, minimalist sci-fi adventure: you are stranded on an alien planet as a scientist and survive without a word of dialogue through puzzles, precise jumps and desperate escapes. The anniversary edition adds reworked visuals that you can switch back to the original look at any time.

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Inside

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A wordless, oppressive puzzle-platformer in which a boy slips through a bleak dystopia, controlling bodies with his mind along the way. Masterful atmosphere and a disturbing finale make it unforgettable.

Flashback

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Flashback is the remake of the 1992 classic: a cinematic sci-fi platformer with fluid, rotoscoped-style animation, hand-drawn backdrops and an agent trying to recover his lost memory. Precise jumping, shooting and light puzzles define the experience.

Impossible Mission

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A 1984 classic in which you play a secret agent searching rooms of Elvin's fortress for puzzle pieces, dodging robots and racing the clock to stop a missile launch.

American Arcadia

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A puzzle-platformer set in a 70s retro-futuristic city that is secretly a deadly reality show. You try to escape the cameras and uncover the truth, alternating between 2D puzzles, stealth sections and 3D chase sequences.

Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty

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A remake of the classic Abe's Oddysee in which you play Abe, an enslaved Mudokon sneaking and puzzling through a sinister meat factory, rescuing fellow workers via the GameSpeak system. Dark humor and a quirky world define the precise 2.5D platforming.

The Fall

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You play an AI in a combat suit trying to save its unconscious pilot on an alien planet. Classic adventure-style puzzles, a bleak atmosphere and a thoughtful story about duty and consciousness drive the experience.

Lunark

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A cinematic 2D platformer in the spirit of classics like Another World and Flashback, with fluid rotoscope-style animation and a sci-fi tale spanning alien ruins and futuristic cities.

Tomb Raider: Legend

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Crystal Dynamics' reboot sends Lara Croft on a globe-trotting hunt for Excalibur and the truth about her mother, blending fluid climbing, physics-based tomb puzzles and cinematic action set pieces. It's compact, linear and briskly paced.

Blackthorne

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A grim cinematic platformer in the vein of Prince of Persia: as Kyle Blackthorne you climb, take cover and shotgun your way through mines and fortresses on the planet Tuul. Precise timing, cover-based gunfights and light puzzles define its unforgiving pace.

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